Description:
Each year, the Eichlinghofen leisure centre for young people, run by the City of Dortmund Youth Office, offers two separate activity holidays for children and older youths respectively. These take place for one week each in camps in the leisure centre grounds. The third week is for joint excursions to a nearby lake.
After a few days of introduction, youll help with a variety of activities, but your main task will be preparing meals and drinks (breakfast, lunch and dinner) for the groups and it would be great if you could provide recipes from your native country so that you all feel at home here. In addition, your help is needed with educational activities, and some cleaning up. All in all, most of your work is about leisure activities!
We envisage joint free time activities with the other workcamp groups staying in Dortmund, and there are numerous possible excursions, for example to the cities of Bochum, Cologne and Hamburg.
Dortmund is in North Rhine-Westphalia; 20 km north-east of Bochum and 90 km north-east of Cologne.
Qualifications / Skills Needed:
A good working knowledge of German and some educational experience would be an advantage.
Languages:
English
and German
Cost in US$: $290 US
Cost Includes:
Food,
Housing,
Registration fees
and Written materials pre-departure
Experience Required: no
Typical Volunteer Projects:
arts,
childcare/children,
cooking,
playgrounds,
recreation,
sports,
volunteering
and youth
Typical Volunteer: Motivated to work voluntarily within an international team, tolerant, open-minded and cooperative person with adventurous spirit.
Age Range: 18 - 26 years old
This Program is open to
American
and Canadian
Participants.
.
Typical Living Arrangement:
Group living
Participants Travel to Germany
Independently
Typically Participants Work
in Groups
CADIP - Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects's Mission Statement: CADIP promotes peace, cooperation, tolerance and understanding in international, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural surroundings. The organization also promotes patterns and examples of civil activities focused on serving others, on building social ties and strengthening communities, on supporting civil society development.
Aims and general objectives:
* To promote volunteering as an expression of civic contribution
* To strengthen the international contacts among young people
* To build tolerance and understanding in multicultural and multi-ethnic surroundings
*To promote multiunderstanding among youth all over the world
* To facilitate the individual growth of the volunteers through the acquisition of work, life and learning skills
* To work for the recognition and promotion of non-formal learning
* To support the community initiatives and assist in community development.